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The Apple A14 Bionic is a 64-bit, ARMv8.4-A system on a chip (SoC). It is designed by Apple Inc. as part of the Apple silicon series. It appears in the iPad Air and iPad, as well as iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max. Apple states that the central processing unit (CPU) performs up to 40% faster than the A12, while the graphics processing unit (GPU) is up to 30% faster than the Apple A12. It also includes a 16-core neural engine and new machine learning matrix accelerators that perform twice and ten times as fast, respectively. The Apple A14 was discontinued on March 4, 2025, when the iPad was discontinued.

Design
The Apple A14 Bionic features an Apple-designed 64-bit, six-core CPU, implementing ARMv8 with two high-performance cores called Firestorm and four energy-efficient cores called Icestorm. The Apple A14 integrates an Apple-designed four-core GPU with 30% faster graphics performance than the A12. The A14 also includes a new image processor with improved computational photography capabilities. A14 is manufactured by TSMC on their first-generation 5 nm fabrication process, N5. This makes the A14 the first commercially available product to be manufactured on a 5 nm process node. The transistor count has increased to 11.8 billion, a 38.8% increase from the A13's transistor count of 8.5 billion. According to SemiAnalysis, the die size of A14 processor is 88 mm2, with a transistor density of 134 million transistors per mm2. It is manufactured in a package on package (PoP) together with 4 GB of LPDDR4X memory in the iPhone 12 and 6 GB of LPDDR4X memory in the iPhone 12 Pro. The Apple A14 would be later used as the basis for the M1 series of chips, used in various Macintosh and iPad models. == Products that include the Apple A14 Bionic ==
Products that include the Apple A14 Bionic
Variants
The table below shows the various SoCs based on the "Firestorm" and "Icestorm" microarchitectures. == See also ==
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